Update twitter with facebook status

Question

Hi,

is it possible? Using some scripting or developed application ?

I asked this here as scrioting gurus are here around

Thanks

Answer 1

This was much harder to uncover than I expected. There are two steps:

Step 1. Get an RSS feed from Facebook that reflects your status.

This is the hard part. Facebook provided one of these easily for a while, but appears to have shut it off.

I tested a method from July 2009, and it still worked for me today. Log in to Facebook and go to Inbox. Then find the little notifications icon on the bar Facebook is displaying at the bottom of the Web browser. I had to left-click on this, then left-click on See All. Then Facebook took me to a page with an RSS feed link named "Your Notifications". Click on that link, and your browser will show the RSS feed (at least Chrome did for me). Edit the URL that your browser is using, changing "notifications.php" to "status.php", and you will see an RSS feed that contains your status updates.

Reference 1 below describes a slightly different process for getting to the RSS feed, which didn't seem to apply to me. Facebook's help was also slightly different than my experience, so YMMV.

Step 2. Use a site that updates twitter from an RSS feed.

Twitterfeed.com seemed to be recommended for this. I didn't test this part, but there should be many alternatives here.

For more details see:

• http://blog.bradgrier.com/2009/07/15/how-to-automatically-post-your-facebook-status-to-twitter/ (emphasizes step 1)
• "How To Sync Your Twitter and Facebook Status Updates" January 22nd, 2009 on Inside Facebook dot com. (emphasizes step 2, find on Google, Stack Overflow wouldn't let me post 2 links since I'm new.)

Why is this so hard? My guess is Facebook is concerned about the privacy implications of this, because once a feed address is given out it can't really be revoked. RSS feeds are generally unauthenticated. Or maybe status updates are considered valuable data.